There is far more to grading a coin than just luster. Is it important ? Yes, but so is everything else. And to ignore everything else is a...
Nope. There is a law that prevents them from keeping them. Leftovers must be melted down.
A couple of reasons. First and foremost, coins, any coins, are terrible investments. And there are numerous reasons for that alone. Secondly, you...
I think the thing here is how one defines ugly. I have seen thousands of toned coins that I thought were ugly as a mud fence, but plenty of others...
Common date damaged coin. Basically being sold for melt, as it should be. edit - something worthy of note. Generic gold coins, even those graded...
Hard to say. Some of the coloration has qualities that might be verdigris, or it might not be. It could be PVC contamination. Either way it is a...
That is not verdigris jjack. That is discoloration caused by contamination.
Yes, the Krause catalogs are standard reference books for the world's coins. Don't forget they have US coins in them too. They should, in my...
With hits like that on the head it absolutely amazes me how anybody could think that coin could ever on ts best day be graded higher than 64 :eek:
rodeo - Yes, some of them did circulate. But the percentage of the coins that were actually used by people was about like how many people use the...
To be quite honest none of those coins are worth sending in to get graded. The grading fees alone would cost more than the coins do. You can put...
I don't know how else to explain it, but the TPGs assume nothing. If it cannot be proved, then they will not say one way or the other - period....
You're never going to get an answer here on those two, not beyond what has already been said. And it really wouldn't matter whether you sent them...
bigherm - to answer your original question, you can count on a damaged coin losing anywhere from 20-80% of its value, depending on the severity of...
Until you know a whole lot about the coins - none of them.
I wouldn't recommend anything until I had a good bit more information. First of all WHY do you want these coins graded ? What is your goal with...
Yeah, take them out of the folder and put them in quality, individual coin holders. Similar things happen with any folder or album. Which is why...
You as an informed collector are supposed to know this and you are also supposed to know that you have to remove the coins from the dealer's flips...
Well, that's kind of what happens when we assume something. Look at the pics below. What do you see on the slabs ? [ATTACH] [ATTACH] You...
It get's slabbed because the coin is identifiable. But they will not designate any coin as having one of the branch mint marks unless they can...
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